Yesterday Scott packed up and left…after almost the whole summer at our house (yep..we’ll miss him, his chirpy “Good morning”‘s and his texts to announce imminent arrival at hours like 7:30 a.m…eek). Bathroom number two upstairs is complete… Yay! To review, as R would say, the first part of the summer produced bathroom #1: which […]
Category: Modern Life
Eggplant & Fresh Tomato Pasta
Here is the recipe inspired by Bill’s veggies…the perfect end of summer dish… 1 medium egg plant, peeled and diced 1/3 to 1/2 c. olive oil 2 cloves garlic peeled and cut in half lengthwise 1/2 red pepper diced (pancetta and 1 spicy sausage if you want to add some protein, which I did) Two […]
Beehive Wednesday…
Our little corner of the world was a beehive of activity today. Scott was here painting bathroom #2, R was at the computer, me packing the show up… and Bill putting in a new trellis to, number one…support a clematis with a fierce will to live, and, number two to hide the view of the […]
Tuesday Luncheon
Luncheon today was at our house…a reunion of sorts. Friend and former student Kent Lew came for a catch up visit while in Portland at a conference…far from his current home in the Berkshires. Kent graduated in 1985 and we’ve only seen him once since then. He was a talented artist, a good student, and […]
Harry Widman at the Sovereign Collection….
Michael Parsons has taken over the Sovereign Collection Gallery (716 SW Madison, Portland), and is showing a nice selection of paintings, collages and assemblages by Portland artist Harry Widman. On Saturday Roger Hull, Widman’s biographer, and Bob Shotola (Harry’s long-time friend) were at the Gallery with Harry and quite a crowd of others to have […]
Friday Report…
Wow…busy week around here…but kind of a miscellaneous week to make a narrative out of… It WAS a week with ART in it though…Elizabeth, Alex and I spent two days in Corrie’s summer studio (a generous offer on Corrie’s part)…she the first artist in residence whereby the CCC gallery is turned into a big studio […]
Cary Doucette: “Foamforms” at 12×16
We zoomed into Sellwood to catch Cary Doucette’s show at 12X16 the other day, and I LOVE this new work. Cary often works with recycled or cast off materials…always to good effect. His inspiration for this work was the foam sculpture made by John Chamberlain in the 1960’s, much larger in scale. With little critical […]
…And Speaking of Gardens…
A couple of weeks ago I spent three days in the Gaiety Hollow garden, the home garden of landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver. The L&S Conservancy asked me to do some drawings for their upcoming fund raising campaign…a campaign to repay the generous donor who bought the house and garden, and is allowing […]
Happy Birthday Eunice!
Until July 28th, at 12X16 Gallery (8235 SE13th Ave. No.5, Portland) you can see Eunice Parsons’ new show “Sweet, Sweet Black.” And SWEET it is. All new work and absolutely beautiful. Eunice says this might be the very last show for which she creates a singular body of work…I really can’t urge you strongly enough […]
Blueberry Chutney and “Turbulence”
SUMMER!!!! So after visiting the MIG fruit and veg stand Saturday (and getting lunch, of course) I got up this morning with the urge for more blueberry chutney. I made some at the beach on the fourth and we’ve eaten it all already…yum. I got the recipe out of the “new” (2012) Oregonian cookbook (“The […]
On The Way 